JCB Reads: Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

Launched during the 2024-5 academic year, JCB Reads offers former JCB fellows the opportunity to share their recent book publications. These online events are open to anyone who is interested. The link to the Zoom meeting will be published a few days before the event takes place on the individual event page. 

Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt (Cornell University). 

All are welcome!

About the book

"This superb book transforms our understanding of the early Caribbean. Demonstrating rare gifts of archival sleuthing, Casey Schmitt places the politics of plunder at the very center of the region’s history of colonization and trade. An impressive, important contribution."—Lauren Benton, author of They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence

Read more about Professor Schmitt's book here.